We’ve got a pretty good idea of what happened on the other days of Holy Week. We know about the Last Supper and the prayer in Gethsemane on Thursday. We know about the cross and the horror of the crucifixion on Friday. And, of course, we know about the Glorious Resurrection on Sunday.

Standing on the Promises
Mark Hall, the lead singer of the Christian band Casting Crowns tells the following story:

Laurie Edwards watched her little girl gasping for air and wanted to breathe for her. She wanted the Maker of breaths to swoop in and fill her child's lungs and dissolve every tumor with His mere glance. She wanted another miracle.

Rise of the “Nones”
You may have heard that the largest growing religious group in America is the “nones.” No, not the lovely little ladies in black habits and wimples, not “N-U-N-S”; but “N-O-N-E-S”. Those who, when asked to mark their religious affiliation on census data or similar surveys, mark “NONE.”

The Peoples Plot in Vain
In 2006 a group of the leading scientists in America got together for something they called the “Beyond Belief” conference. The magazine New Scientist described the meeting like this:

Conjunction Junction
Today is the first Sunday in Lent. Lent is the season that leads up to Easter. 40 days (not counting the Sundays) commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert fasting and being tempted by Satan. I usually think of the season of Lent as preparation for thinking about what Jesus did for us on the cross.

And so, today we are beginning a new series, one that I have entitled “But God…”